I don’t (yet) have a use case for publishing files on IPFS, so I wondered if the network still benefited from me running a node with nothing published. It has good connectivity (up to 20mb upload, no limits, behind NAT but uPNP enabled, IPv4 only) so my understanding is that it could still participate in the DHT.

Is it a net benefit to the network to have it running, or will it make no difference (or make things worse)?